Joe Nation to Speak at June 20 Meeting
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We are very pleased to have Joe Nation join us as our keynote speaker at our June 20 meeting. This one will fill up quickly so get your registration in early. For a registration form, click here.
Petaluma Police Owe an Explantion
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A Petaluma police officer participating in a police-sponsored golf tournament last October evidently drove a motorized scooter belonging to another officer across the fourth fairway of the golf course, crashed the scooter and had to be taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash. Witnesses reported the officer as acting boisterously and having been drinking, yet Petaluma police officers on the scene neither administered field sobriety tests nor took a blood sample. (more…)
Why Props. 30 and 38 Hurt Our Children
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Propositions 30 and 38 are all about our children. No doubt about that. But unlike the view of my friend, Paul Gullixson, who writes that a “no” vote on these propositions is about protesting the actions of the past or teaching someone a lesson, a “no” vote in fact represents a long-range vision of hope for our children’s future. (more…)
Healdsburg Officials Refuse to Debate Measure V
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Healdsburg Council Members promoting their half cent sales tax increase known as Measure V claim to have made all the budget cuts they reasonably can. But have they really? (more…)
Taxpayers’ Association Voters Guide
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Sonoma County Taxpayers’ Association Voters’ Guide
Measure M – Gravenstein Union School Dist. Bond YES
Measure N – Roseland Elementary School Dist. Bond NO
Measure P – Wilmar Union School Dist. Bond NO
Measure R – Santa Rosa, Binding Arbitration YES
Measure S – Santa Rosa, Design-Build YES
Measure V – Healdsburg Sales Tax Increase NO
Measure X – Petaluma Parcel Tax NO
Measure Y – Sebastopol Sales Tax Increase NO
Measure Z – Rancho Adobe Fire Dist. Parcel Tax YES
Proposition 30 – Sales and Income Tax Increases NO
Proposition 32 – Prohibition of Payroll Deduction YES
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Proposition 37 – GMO Labeling NO
Proposition 38 – Income Tax Increases NO
Proposition 39 – Tax Treatment of Multi-State Corporations NO
Petaluma Parcel Tax Misses the Mark
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No one disputes that the Petaluma Friends of Recreation have done a commendable job organizing volunteers and gathering the signatures necessary to qualify their parcel tax measure for the November ballot. Sadly, however, that effort cannot cure the numerous deficiencies of the measure itself. (more…)